Win2k and mouse lag.

Sometime early yesterday...I noticed that when I move my mouse around the screen it would sometimes stop, as if the computer was doing something in the background and then would continue.

At first I thought it was nothing but now it's gotten worse and worse. This is what I've tried so far:
1) I've uninstalled and reinstalled standard mouse drivers.
2) Uninstalled a few programs I installed recently (Just to be safe)
3) Reinstalled video drivers (I did this because the mouse is also creating a ghosting effect on my desktop. If I move it around, an outline of an icon or tool tip will pop-up and then vanish. This happenes almost all the time.)
4) I've tried different background images/no background image.

This problem is making it almost imposible to play any games that reqire the mouse because with it freezes in the game (Half-Life) it freezes the game up. And it also really hurts general operation of the system. Oh yeah, I also checked out my programs and processes and nothing new has popped-up in the last few days.

Now, my setup:
Win2k (No SP's yet)
256 MB RAM
700 MHz Duron
30 GB hard drive (25 GB free)
NVIDIA TNT2 Video card (32 MB)
Onboard sound and NIC
Standard keyboard and Optical MS mouse
And I just reinstalled Win2k on NTFS about a month ago.

Any ideas?

CornMaster,
I feel your pain, believe me, I do. I'm using a brand, spanking-new, Dell Precision 420 direct from the factory. I have a similar problem to what you have.
My menus and other submenu selections don't fade away. I have ghost images of my menu selections floating on my desktop until I click somewhere else. Odd, huh?
The only similarity I can draw from our systems is that we both have nVidia display adapters. My model is a GeForce2 GTS 32Mb DDR.
As for mouse-skipping and freezing the system... I'd say you probably have a USB mouse, right? We have the same problem with Half-Life CounterStrike. Its extremely frustrating and makes life hell when you couldn't kill the guy that just plugged your happy *** .

--raptorGT

Well....we have a similar problem.

I have a USB mouse but I use a PS/2 Converter. I also used tweak UI and disabled the fading and such. Maybe I "over-tweaked" I'll try setting some of the options back.

And how lucky is that. I work for Dell Technical support. <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0"> I support Dimensions and Optiplexs. So I can't help you offically. <IMG SRC="smilies/frown.gif" border="0">

But do you have ICQ or MSN Messager? Maybe we can discuss this and try and figure it out!!! My ICQ # in 20706862 and MSN is [email protected]

Just post here if you don't have either.